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#64 Coco Chanel: Her Life and Secrets)

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The Mistake of Closing a Fashion House

Coco Chanel closes down her fashion house at the beginning of world war two. She stays closed for 15 years and then she comes back when she's like 70 so this is the mistake. After the war, before reopening her business Coco Chanel embarked on one of the hardest battles of her career. The little orphan declared war on finance there was an attempt to deprive her of the profits from one of her perfumes with the guile and stubbornness of a peasant woman.

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